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To avoid gross errors in feeding, one must not forget that the domestic dog is genetically 99% a wolf.

 In the process of breeding various breeds, only the external appearance and psyche changed, but all the internal organs, including the digestive system, in the dog remained exactly the same as in the wild wolf.

Predatory teeth designed to rip meat and crush bones. Wide esophagus for swallowing large pieces. Unicameral stomach and short intestines. A highly concentrated gastric juice, essential for the digestion of meat.

Therefore, the domestic dog wants to eat like a wolf –

the food to which her body is adapted. In nature, wolves eat mainly meat. This is their “species-specific food”. They gnaw a lot of bones to replenish minerals. After killing a hoofed animal, the wolf rips open its belly and, first of all, devours the stomach along with its contents (half-digested grass) – this is how the predator gets the enzymes, bacteria and plant fiber that it needs for normal digestion. Predators do not refuse from bird eggs, small rodents and even insects. In summer, wolves feast on fruits and berries.

A caring owner feeds his dog with a set of products that is as close as possible to the natural diet of a wolf.

Up to two months of age, the puppy is fed 4 times a day, from two to six months – 3 times, then – 2 times.

Do not feed your dog, even an adult, only once a day.

 Divide the daily allowance into two portions (morning and evening) – this will save the dog from stomach distension and bloat.

The dog should always have access to fresh water!

Let the water container be larger (a bucket, not a bowl) so that the water retains its original temperature longer and deteriorates more slowly.

Secure the container so the dog doesn’t accidentally turn it over and run out of water.

A bowl holder is not needed, the bowl must be on the ground or on the floor. It is natural for a dog to eat from the ground, and a high stand interferes with the passage of food into the stomach.

What to feed:

The main rule: ALL food must be raw. Do not cook anything!

Denatured (boiled) protein is difficult and far from completely absorbed by the dog. Digestive juices and predator enzymes cannot cope with clotted proteins. It takes the body much more time and energy to break them down than it does to digest raw protein. Cooking meat and vegetables is money down the drain and starvation of the dog’s body.

The bulk of the food should be protein products: meat (except pork), offal, beef tripe, cottage cheese, raw eggs, dairy products, sea fish.

ALL of these products are given RAW.

The fat content of meat is 10-15% (beef, lamb, poultry), and it is better to take fatter sea fish. Iced capelin is good.

Very useful, even extremely necessary, for dogs, as well as for other predatory animals, raw unpeeled beef or lamb tripe! (peeled and bleached is useless).

Essential dietary supplements are raw bones and raw vegetables, fruits and herbs.

Vegetables should be given the most varied: pumpkin, peas, zucchini, carrots, cabbage, turnips, Jerusalem artichoke, bell pepper, tomatoes, greens.

 You do not need to cook vegetables; they should be chopped RAW on the smallest fine grater or in a blender, literally in mashed potatoes, and mixed with pieces of raw meat and fish. On the raw vegetable fiber in the intestines of the dog, beneficial bacteria multiply.

Boiled vegetables or vegetables in the form of large pieces will not do any good to the dog.

Fruits: apples, pears, apricots, persimmons, bananas, any berries. Dried fruits are also useful.

It is advisable to add 100 g of fatty sea fish to food daily. It is a source of polyunsaturated fatty acids, essential for any body.

It is helpful to give good butter twice a week (a piece the size of a matchbox).

2 times a week add a teaspoon of honey to the feed. It is sometimes helpful to give other beekeeping products.

As a treat between feedings – a carrot, any fruit.

ALL THE Listed INGREDIENTS MIX IN ONE BOWL.

Only bones are given separately, after meals. The bones are only SPONGE, covered with a small layer of meat. For example: beef tails, bird necks and heads, beef bones of the chest. But the tubular bones are dangerous: they spoil the teeth and can split into sharp fragments! Never give your dog boiled or fried bones – they do not dissolve in gastric juice and strongly clog the intestines, up to and including obstruction.

After two months, the puppy can already be allowed to gnaw the neck of the turkey, and after the change of teeth – the beef tail and beef bones of the chest.

Don’t overfeed your puppy!

He doesn’t need to grow too fast.

The puppy should be thin rather than fat.

Too large and rapidly increasing body weight can lead to curvature of the limbs, because small puppies have soft ligaments.

Pyrenean mountain dogs have a reduced metabolism and therefore do not need a lot of food.

The main thing is to diversify the diet as much as possible and adhere to the correct ratio of products:

80% – protein food (meat of 10% fat content and offal, fatty sea fish, eggs);

10% – raw, well-crushed vegetable fiber;

10% – cancellous bones.

The amount of food they eat depends on your dog’s activity and the time of year.

In winter, a dog living on the street eats twice as much as in summer.

 A dog that moves a lot over a large area has a much better appetite than one that lives in an aviary or in a house.

Remember that sweet, spicy, salty and smoked foods are bad for dogs! Onions and garlic are bad! Grapes in large quantities are dangerous. Vegetable oil is useless. Pharmaceutical fish oil is harmful. Chocolate is poison. Sugar substitutes are poison.

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